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VOLUME 53, ISSUE 34 Wenesday, Nov. 25, 1992 wsu team takes national champion ship. p. 10 j WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY OGDEN, UTAH :-nf,' V rtlt Signpost By SCOTT SHINER Asst. news editor of The Signpost Weber State University is internationally known as a university that builds satellites, said a delegate at a space aeronautical meeting in Asia two weeks ago. "As far as I know, we are the only undergraduate program in the world that builds satellites," said Ralph Butler, project liaison engineer. WSU has only one full-time ulty advisors and 12 students, Butler said. The two faculty advisors are Kelly Harward and Mark Crookston. The University of Surrey in England has a graduate program that builds satellites with about m run-rime memDers empioyea, and other undergraduate programs are just starting and calling Weber for advice, Butler said. The new satellite they are working on now is called Phase 3D. This a continuing student project that will be carried onyear-to-year, Butler said. The WSU CAST program (Center for Aeronautic Space Technology) has been working on the Phase 3D for 18 months now and expects to finish in 1995, with projected launch date being October of that year, Butler said. WSU is working on the satellite in conjunction with AMSAT (Amateur Satellite), which is an international organization. Since the CAST program is not funded by the school, CAST director Bob Twiggs has to go out and raise the money needed through grants and donations, since the estimated cost to build Bum Deal WSU plans for third student-built satellite . ' ., V s ; ' - ' i ". - V ,.' ls;p ,-- CHUCK BOWHAY THE SIGNPOST THE HILL WEST of E.G. King Elementary school provides a winter playground (or local Layton adventures. and launch Phase 3D is $6 million.Dick Jannsen, a retired thermal engineer living in Florida, designed the satellite. Jannsen is the leading satellite designer for AMSAT. He is also WSU adjunct faculty that gives lectures when he's in town, Butler said. "He's helped the WSU satellite program tremendously," Butler said. Thesatellitewillbebuiltasthe interface of the rocket (the space between the rocket itself and the nose cone), but because of the change in the interface design, the satellite will need to be redesigned also, Butler said. Originally there were 26 parts to be constructed by 12 students, but with the redesign several of those parts were delayed. Now there are only six parts, allowing two to three students to work on each part, Crookston said. When the students were told the satellite would need to be redesigned, there were mixed feelings."Personally it didn't affect me. Changes happen in industry, so we have to learn to deal with it anyway," said Brent Fisher, project group leader. - Even with the need for the redesign, most of the students have had a good attitude, he said. Though many of the plans that have already been prepared will need to be changed, it still is unknown how much the project will be thrown off schedule, Crookston said. "Dick Jannsen had put in 10,000 hours on the original de-signand depending on how much time he can put into the new design will determine if the estimated completion date will be pushed back or not," Crookston said. "The reason we have this pro gram here is to provide better educational opportunity for students and provide faculty with better qual i ty classroom enha nce-ment' Twiggs said. Other than the main design done by Jannsen, the process development, research, recommendations of changes, detailed plans for archives and manufacture of both tools and parts, are all done here on campus, Fisher said. "Tha t's what makes the manufacturing department at Weber State unique," Fisher said. "Actually, we're set up almost likea mini-company with quality (See SATELLITE on page 3) Wednesday, Nov. 25 Accu-Wealher forecast fur dayiime conditions and high temperatures IDAHO NEV. Ogden 36 kill- WYO. Salt Lake City 37) Provo 38 Moab 34' Cedar City 43' COLO. Somalia-bound relief ship shelled by warlords Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia A shell struck a U.N.-chartered ship laden with food for the starving as it approached Mogadishu's port onTuesday, sending the vessel back out to sea with its precious cargo. No casualties were reported aboard the ship, but the incident was the latest setbacks in an international effort to save an estimated 2 million famished Somalis. Relief officials thought they had successfully negotiated Monday with two warlords controlling Mogadishu for four ships waiting offshore to unload desperately needed supplies. The Red Cross on Sunday cut from two to one the number of meals it was serving to a half-million people in Mogadishu and reduced the calories of each meal from 1,200 to 600, The arrival of the relief ships would have changed that. "We could have immediately brought the rations up to 100 percent and begun feeding them two meals a day again," said Horst Hamborg, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Mogadishu. By U.N. estimates, up to 300,000 Somalis already have died of the twin effects of war and famine. The relief effort has been hampered for months by clan warfare, disputes among warlords and looting by their militias and free-lance bandits. Capt. Carsten Hall Weibrecht of Den-(See SHELLED on page 6) DJIBOUTI YEMEN 2QO miles " ' ' ' i J SOMALIA J 200 km S ETHIOPIA . Indian Mogadishu Otw Ship shelled kenyaVj on approach y.'-- to harbor h A.F'R.J C A '"w APWm. J. Castello Shows T-stcym Ran Flumes Snow Ice Sunny Pi Coudv C'oudv Va AssooaleC Press GnptKsNet 01992 Accu-Weathef, Inc. 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VOLUME 53, ISSUE 34 Wenesday, Nov. 25, 1992 wsu team takes national champion ship. p. 10 j WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY OGDEN, UTAH :-nf,' V rtlt Signpost By SCOTT SHINER Asst. news editor of The Signpost Weber State University is internationally known as a university that builds satellites, said a delegate at a space aeronautical meeting in Asia two weeks ago. "As far as I know, we are the only undergraduate program in the world that builds satellites," said Ralph Butler, project liaison engineer. WSU has only one full-time ulty advisors and 12 students, Butler said. The two faculty advisors are Kelly Harward and Mark Crookston. The University of Surrey in England has a graduate program that builds satellites with about m run-rime memDers empioyea, and other undergraduate programs are just starting and calling Weber for advice, Butler said. The new satellite they are working on now is called Phase 3D. This a continuing student project that will be carried onyear-to-year, Butler said. The WSU CAST program (Center for Aeronautic Space Technology) has been working on the Phase 3D for 18 months now and expects to finish in 1995, with projected launch date being October of that year, Butler said. WSU is working on the satellite in conjunction with AMSAT (Amateur Satellite), which is an international organization. Since the CAST program is not funded by the school, CAST director Bob Twiggs has to go out and raise the money needed through grants and donations, since the estimated cost to build Bum Deal WSU plans for third student-built satellite . ' ., V s ; ' - ' i ". - V ,.' ls;p ,-- CHUCK BOWHAY THE SIGNPOST THE HILL WEST of E.G. King Elementary school provides a winter playground (or local Layton adventures. and launch Phase 3D is $6 million.Dick Jannsen, a retired thermal engineer living in Florida, designed the satellite. Jannsen is the leading satellite designer for AMSAT. He is also WSU adjunct faculty that gives lectures when he's in town, Butler said. "He's helped the WSU satellite program tremendously," Butler said. Thesatellitewillbebuiltasthe interface of the rocket (the space between the rocket itself and the nose cone), but because of the change in the interface design, the satellite will need to be redesigned also, Butler said. Originally there were 26 parts to be constructed by 12 students, but with the redesign several of those parts were delayed. Now there are only six parts, allowing two to three students to work on each part, Crookston said. When the students were told the satellite would need to be redesigned, there were mixed feelings."Personally it didn't affect me. Changes happen in industry, so we have to learn to deal with it anyway," said Brent Fisher, project group leader. - Even with the need for the redesign, most of the students have had a good attitude, he said. Though many of the plans that have already been prepared will need to be changed, it still is unknown how much the project will be thrown off schedule, Crookston said. "Dick Jannsen had put in 10,000 hours on the original de-signand depending on how much time he can put into the new design will determine if the estimated completion date will be pushed back or not," Crookston said. "The reason we have this pro gram here is to provide better educational opportunity for students and provide faculty with better qual i ty classroom enha nce-ment' Twiggs said. Other than the main design done by Jannsen, the process development, research, recommendations of changes, detailed plans for archives and manufacture of both tools and parts, are all done here on campus, Fisher said. "Tha t's what makes the manufacturing department at Weber State unique," Fisher said. "Actually, we're set up almost likea mini-company with quality (See SATELLITE on page 3) Wednesday, Nov. 25 Accu-Wealher forecast fur dayiime conditions and high temperatures IDAHO NEV. Ogden 36 kill- WYO. Salt Lake City 37) Provo 38 Moab 34' Cedar City 43' COLO. Somalia-bound relief ship shelled by warlords Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia A shell struck a U.N.-chartered ship laden with food for the starving as it approached Mogadishu's port onTuesday, sending the vessel back out to sea with its precious cargo. No casualties were reported aboard the ship, but the incident was the latest setbacks in an international effort to save an estimated 2 million famished Somalis. Relief officials thought they had successfully negotiated Monday with two warlords controlling Mogadishu for four ships waiting offshore to unload desperately needed supplies. The Red Cross on Sunday cut from two to one the number of meals it was serving to a half-million people in Mogadishu and reduced the calories of each meal from 1,200 to 600, The arrival of the relief ships would have changed that. "We could have immediately brought the rations up to 100 percent and begun feeding them two meals a day again," said Horst Hamborg, a spokesman for the Red Cross in Mogadishu. By U.N. estimates, up to 300,000 Somalis already have died of the twin effects of war and famine. The relief effort has been hampered for months by clan warfare, disputes among warlords and looting by their militias and free-lance bandits. Capt. Carsten Hall Weibrecht of Den-(See SHELLED on page 6) DJIBOUTI YEMEN 2QO miles " ' ' ' i J SOMALIA J 200 km S ETHIOPIA . Indian Mogadishu Otw Ship shelled kenyaVj on approach y.'-- to harbor h A.F'R.J C A '"w APWm. J. Castello Shows T-stcym Ran Flumes Snow Ice Sunny Pi Coudv C'oudv Va AssooaleC Press GnptKsNet 01992 Accu-Weathef, Inc. InsidO Arts: Pow Wow concludes Weber State tribute to Native Americans. p. 10 ThQ Signpost Sports: Wildcat football bids farewell its most successful quarterback. p. 13